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August 2025

August 16, 2025

Joseph of Egypt – the Chosen spin-off announces its cast

The Prime Video miniseries is now being filmed in New Mexico.

April 2025

April 10, 2025

Exclusive: A clip from Angel Studios’ The King of Kings

In which Walter (Roman Griffin Davis), the son of Charles Dickens (Kenneth Branagh), watched as...

January 2025

January 24, 2025

Exclusive: Watch a clip from Angel Studios’ Brave the Dark

The film is about a teacher who takes a trouble student under his wing.

December 2024

December 19, 2024

Exclusive: Watch a clip from Angel Studios’ Homestead

The film is a family survival drama that takes place after Los Angeles is hit...

November 2024

November 22, 2024

Exclusive: Watch a clip from Angel Studios’ Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Jonas Dassler) says he must split the church to save it, in Bonhoeffer:...

May 2024

May 21, 2024

Oscar Isaac, Forest Whitaker join animated Jesus movie

Interestingly, both actors have Nativity-movie experience.

February 2024

February 03, 2024

Watch: The Chosen’s creators on Season 4’s big plot twist

What did Jesus -- and Dallas Jenkins -- know, and when did they know it?

December 2023

December 22, 2023

Which Bible movies are getting the most views on Netflix?

Netflix released a huge list of its 18,000 most-watched shows. Noah and The Chosen both...

December 07, 2023

Talking about The Prince of Egypt: The Musical

My chat with 100 Bible Films author Matt Page about the stage-musical version of the...

December 01, 2023

Exclusive: Watch a clip from The Shift, the first sci-fi film from Angel Studios

The Benefactor can't believe Kevin is praying, in an exclusive clip from Angel Studios' first...

May 2023

May 11, 2023

Interview: Emilio Estevez on immersive travel, the road as church, and The Way

The 2010 film, which stars Estevez's father Martin Sheen as a lapsed Catholic on a...

March 2023

March 27, 2023

Interview: David Helling on directing His Only Son

The first-time feature-film maker talks about tackling one of the Old Testament's more controversial stories...

November 2022

November 15, 2022

Interview: Vanessa Benavente on playing Jesus’ mother in The Chosen

The Peruvian actress talks about playing Mary as a woman with a sense of humour...

July 2022

July 05, 2022

The Chosen — season two, episode one

A preview of the analysis I posted to my new Substack account.

July 01, 2022

Listen: The audio trailer for Audible’s podcast drama The Prophecy

The eight-episode apocalyptic drama comes out July 28.

June 2022

June 18, 2022

Production paused on Netflix’s American Jesus adaptation after two actors die in a car accident

The series was being filmed in Mexico under the title The Chosen One.

June 18, 2022

Is Terrence Malick’s Jesus movie coming soon? Maybe not…

Reports of the film's near-completion may have been greatly exaggerated.

June 11, 2022

The Chosen update: feeding the 5,000, creator Dallas Jenkins on the show’s unorthodox marketing campaign, and more!

The hit life-of-Jesus series has almost finished filming its third season.

June 10, 2022

Magdala round-up: clips, photos, and reviews from Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival came and went a few weeks ago, and with it, the...

June 08, 2022

Is Terrence Malick’s Jesus movie going to play festivals this year?

Malick shot The Way of the Wind in 2019 and has been editing it ever...

June 08, 2022

Young David animated series coming in 2023

It will be followed by a film that is currently targeting a 2025 release.

May 2022

May 24, 2022

Noah and Moses reunite for Thor: Love and Thunder!

Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, who co-starred in 3:10 to Yuma before starring in Noah...

May 20, 2022

Glimpse the Queen of Sheba in the trailer for Three Thousand Years of Longing

The character in George Miller's newest film is being played by Ugandan model Aamito Stacie...

May 16, 2022

Jeymes Samuel and LaKeith Stanfield are going to make a Bible movie

The makers of The Harder They Fall are planning a Bible movie with black actors.

May 12, 2022

The Omen gets a prequel and Left Behind gets a sequel (or re-reboot)

Both of these long-running end-times franchises are starting anew, with new actors and new directors.

May 12, 2022

The Arts & Faith Top 25 Movie Musicals

A few quick notes on the artistic and theological significance of Stephen Schwartz's songs.

May 09, 2022

Is Jesus back in Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part II?

Brooks, who directed the original 1981 film, is producing the sequel series for Hulu.

April 2022

April 20, 2022

Mary Magdalene movie to get its world premiere at Cannes

Magdala looks at the final days of Mary Magdalene, after she has withdrawn from the...

April 16, 2022

The Chosen and its unorthodox marketing campaign

Can demons be saved? An edgy ad campaign for the popular life-of-Jesus series is surprisingly...

April 16, 2022

Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (dir. David Yates, 2022)

Ostensibly the middle movie in a five-part series, but you get the feeling the filmmakers...